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RJ Choppy tapped the College Kegger to dive into the current chaos of the transfer portal and shifting NCAA landscape. They broke down the top-ranked transfer portal classes, including Oklahoma State’s new team full of last year’s UNT roster. Debated aging rosters vs. high school recruiting, previewed the impact of the new eligibility rules, and more.

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00:00Now that the dust has settled, a local team, Bobby, has the best transfer class at all of college football.
00:08Okay, so you're going to tell me it's Arkansas or Oklahoma?
00:10Close.
00:11Close.
00:12Kind of in the middle, kind of northwest of Arkansas and northeast of Oklahoma.
00:17It is Oklahoma State has done the best of any of the power four schools.
00:23Not so bad, that UNT program that they rated, huh?
00:27I know, only if they could get 50 other players that are worth a damn.
00:30I mean, they literally took about 50 players from UNT.
00:32Look, I mean, they get 80 players that are worth a damn.
00:35But you get Caleb Hawkins, who was there.
00:38You get Wyatt Young, who was there, and Drew Mestemaker.
00:43To go along with the head coach, of course, and now you've got yourself a nice little team.
00:47Best season ever from Eric Morris for the Mean Green.
00:52And now they bring what was a really awesome offense at that level.
00:56They bring it up.
00:57To the Big 12.
00:59And now we'll see what happens there this year.
01:01But all things considered, sleeper Big 12 contenders at this point.
01:06Everyone's talking about throwing a coin, some coin down on the Cowboys to win the Big 12.
01:12Do you not see what I'm seeing here?
01:15The hypocrisy of the UNT take.
01:18And they're now talking about throwing a coin down on them as a sleeper for raiding the school
01:23and putting it in Oklahoma State.
01:24It's not a sleeper take.
01:25It's not a sleeper take.
01:25It's just like Indiana when they raided James Madison.
01:28That doesn't mean James Madison could have done the same thing.
01:31They're combining two organizations.
01:33But it definitely means that you wouldn't have talked about James Madison if the Corps
01:37went over and helped contribute to a national championship.
01:40That you'd be like, they deserve absolutely no recognition.
01:43Yeah, I would because it's about having 22 legitimate starters at the Power 4 level versus having seven.
01:53You talked about North Texas like it was A-Ball versus MLB.
01:57It is A-Ball versus MLB.
01:58If it's A-Ball versus MLB, then it can't be worth throwing a coin down after they raided their school.
02:04This was the college football argument, by the way, about UNT and those types of programs getting in.
02:09Me and Choppy, I ended up siding with Choppy being like, they're going to get smoked.
02:13They should not have this seating.
02:14And Bobby's point was, well, if they're good enough to be raided, then they should be good enough to be
02:21counted.
02:21And also, I didn't think it mattered if they got smoked.
02:24Because to me, it was like, this is the reward in the era of NIL to protect these programs that
02:27are going to get raided.
02:28And look, if that was your, if that's the take, I'm fine with, just be upfront about it.
02:34Be upfront about it.
02:35This is not the most, just say it's not the most 12 deserving, 12 most deserving teams.
02:40Don't they tell you that with the polls, though, where none of them put them in the top 12?
02:46They tell you it's an at-large bid.
02:48Yeah, but to me, an at-large bid is like, okay, you're an at-large bid means you're the, you're
02:52like a legitimate deserving team.
02:54An automatic bid, if you were to give a conference champion like Duke, if Duke had made it, I wouldn't
02:59have had a, I mean, I would have hated it, but, you know, like they, I would have hated it.
03:04But at least they're like a major conference winner, right?
03:07It's tough.
03:08I see both sides.
03:09I, for my own selfish purposes, care more about what the ball is.
03:13And Malcolm Simmons, who, you know, they got a big payday as well.
03:18So, LSU gets up there, K-State, West Virginia, Florida, Atlantic, Houston.
03:24And then you get all the way down to number 15, and you find Texas, who, Cam Coleman's really the
03:29number one, right?
03:30Yeah, that's, I mean, in a lot of instances, you're just, you're trying to snatch a big name out of
03:36the portal and then fill in around it.
03:38And so, as long as you get a guy like that, then you're good.
03:41So, there's your top classes from the portal.
03:44So, I've come away with a couple of things here from the last couple of national championships that were crowned.
03:50One was Indiana, and then obviously Michigan.
03:53And the two new truths, truths, about college athletics.
03:59One, a good 22-year-old is better than an elite 18-year-old.
04:05I think you'd rather have that.
04:06Clip that, Peyton.
04:08Usually you want the thoroughbred talent.
04:10Usually you do.
04:11Usually you do want the thoroughbred talent, but you got a man versus a child still.
04:17And then number two, 75% of your NIL budget needs to go to the transfer portal and not high
04:25school recruiting.
04:26And I hate that.
04:28I hate that.
04:29It is, this is ruined high school recruiting.
04:32It's the Dion philosophy of just, screw it.
04:35I don't even need to be in the homes of high schoolers.
04:37And I really hate it.
04:38I really, I really hate it.
04:40Instead of getting a 17- to 20-person recruiting class, you're going to get a 10.
04:45You know, and the threshold to become a Division I athlete out of high school.
04:50You know, sit in your high school gym on National Signing Day in front of a banner,
04:56and then you put the Ohio State hat on, or the Texas hat on, or the Florida hat on,
05:01and now you're going to put on Akron.
05:04Then you justify Matt Leiner.
05:05And then you justify Matt Leiner, because Matt Leiner, he was proven so right.
05:11So right yesterday.
05:12Bobby, you backed him fully.
05:14And I loved it.
05:15I loved it too.
05:16Backed him more than Reggie Bush shoving him into the end zone.
05:19Because he said he would not give up, and he would not unretire number 11,
05:26because he's like, I don't know that this kid's going to be here for more than a year.
05:30This is why Troy Aikman's not going to donate money to UCLA.
05:34He's like, why would I donate money to a kid who's going to take my money,
05:37spend a year here, maybe red shirt, and then leave for greener pastures?
05:41Well, I mean, this is maybe one of the biggest landslides we've ever seen.
05:47Jake Wilkins at Georgia got somebody named Dominique to unretire number 21.
05:55How did he know Dominique?
05:57It's his dad!
05:59And he still left after one year.
06:02He left after his dad unretired.
06:03His dad unretires his jersey for one year, and he leaves.
06:08That's pretty solid.
06:09But I'm sure Dad knew that.
06:11And does it immediately go back to being retired now?
06:14I would assume so.
06:16I wonder if that's the arrangement.
06:19Is the general understood arrangement in these sort of requests that,
06:23well, if they leave or as soon as they leave, it just defaults back to being retired.
06:26We're not just going to keep handing it out.
06:29It might be.
06:30It might.
06:31I just.
06:31Yeah, I'm keeping it off limits.
06:33I'm keeping it off limits.
06:34I don't want anybody to have it.
06:35Matt Leiner, I think Matt Leiner's right.
06:37I think this is a landslide of all landslides.
06:40Keep it away.
06:41Keep it away.
06:42But anyway, yeah, so like Indiana, going back to that last comment about the average age
06:48of a Sweet 16 team this year was 22 years old.
06:50Average.
06:51Average age.
06:52That's almost two full years older than the average age was in 2015 of a team in the Sweet
06:5716.
06:58Indiana football, their average age was 23 of their starters on offense.
07:03The average age of the Green Bay Packers was 25.
07:07Wow.
07:08Like, put that in perspective.
07:10You know, these are men playing against children, essentially.
07:15College kegger here, 105.3 The Fan.
07:18The Save College Sports Act.
07:22Tell me if you like these two rules that were put out there.
07:26They're going to take effect August 1st.
07:28They're in executive order.
07:31Number one, implementing a five for five eligibility model, which they have five years to play five
07:36seasons.
07:38So they could play five seasons if they don't get hurt.
07:41Right?
07:41You don't get hurt.
07:42You get five years.
07:43No red shirt.
07:43Nothing.
07:45Two, moving back to the old rules that limit players to a single transfer without a penalty.
07:50So you don't have to sit out.
07:52But if you want to transfer a second time, then you've got to sit out a year.
07:57But if you graduate, you get an additional free transfer.
08:05So you lose an opportunity.
08:06So I have to graduate first, then get my transfer?
08:09So you could transfer.
08:10So let's say you say, I'm going to go to the University of Texas.
08:13You stay there for a year.
08:14You're like, I don't like it.
08:15I'm going to transfer to Utah.
08:18You're stuck.
08:20Okay?
08:20Until you graduate, and then you get a free transfer.
08:24Now it is, if you don't like Texas, you go to Utah.
08:26If you don't like Utah, you go to Washington.
08:29If you don't like Washington, you end up in Alabama, and you've gone to four schools in four years
08:33and never have to sit out.
08:34You can still do that under the potential new rules, but once you leave the second school,
08:39you've got to sit out a year.
08:40You still maintain eligibility, but you've got to just miss a year.
08:43I'll go to the selfishness again.
08:45I'll divide this.
08:47Selfishness versus what should be right.
08:50The selfishness is I like that.
08:53I don't like everyone just jumping around nonstop.
08:56But what is right?
08:57These coaches are whores.
08:59Lane Kiffin is a whore.
09:00They're all whores.
09:01So now I've got to sit here and put the limitations on the kids.
09:06That doesn't feel right from a student or just individual perspective.
09:11But from a selfish sports fan perspective, yes, I like the limitation of the movement.
09:16Because when a coach leaves, everybody's free, no matter whether they're out of transfers or not.
09:22That's the good thing.
09:23Yeah, I mean, it's the good thing in terms of—
09:26Even when a new coach comes in, my position can be screwed.
09:28Yeah, so when your coach leaves, yeah, you can enter the portal.
09:33You're free to go.
09:34Yeah, like Sean said, it's nice from the perspective of the consumer, the person watching it.
09:41The biggest thing to me is like—
09:43If I go to college as a student, I'm not limited on the amount of different colleges I can go
09:49to.
09:49No, you can't.
09:49Why?
09:50Why does this have to be a rule?
09:51Like, if I'm a player, and I were to say, like, tell me the reason why.
09:55Who does this protect?
09:57It protects the team.
09:58Okay, then that's not a good enough—
10:00Like, you can't then—
10:01Right.
10:01This is about—you're putting rules on me because you just want to protect the bottom line of a school.
10:07You want to go back to some of the same stuff that existed back before NIL did.
10:11You're trying to basically create rules and limitations that, all right, well, we can kind of get back the model
10:18that we want.
10:19Sorry, no.
10:20Like, I mean, I'd like it if they just stayed, but no.
10:23Like, there's no reasonable explanation as to why that rule would be in place to protect the player.
10:30And if they were going to have the rule about the transfer thing, to Sean's point, with all the coaches
10:33flipping,
10:33then there needs to be some rule in place about how much coaches are allowed to move.
10:36Yeah.
10:37Oh, yeah.
10:39The second rule, that one about the transfer—
10:41I'm sure Saban didn't push that, though.
10:42Probably not.
10:43Because he's a whore, too.
10:45This thing is—you need to modify it and work around it.
10:48I do not like the five for five.
10:50Playing five seasons, that's not college football.
10:53Five seasons?
10:54I don't like that.
10:54You're saying you think it should be four.
10:55Just stop it at four.
10:57Have five years.
10:57You have five years by four.
10:59This whole fifth year—
11:00I hate the six-year stuff, too.
11:01Yeah, I don't either.
11:03I can work around the—so I would get rid of that one.
11:06The second one about the player transfer rules, I mean, there's work—there's things you can work with in there
11:11that you've got to mold and change a little, because I agree, you know, like if you—
11:14Well, you ain't changing nothing.
11:15It's an executive order.
11:17Well—
11:17It's done.
11:18But that's—that's just a—I don't think that's actually in law.
11:21Okay.
11:22I don't think.
11:22I thought you said it was taking effect.
11:23It would take effect, but the way the executive orders work is it can direct enforcement,
11:32but it can't override, like, state laws.
11:36Okay.
11:36So, you know, once that happens, it'll not really work.
11:39College keg—
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